Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Completely deaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deaf as a stone; totally deaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Completely
deaf (as deaf as a stone).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective totally deaf; unable to hear anything
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Examples
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He did not know what had occurred, and, being stone-deaf, had thought the rush aft a response to a call for all hands.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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The feeble-minded faun (the stone-deaf man) led the way to Mr. Pike's assistance, followed by Tony, the suicidal Greek.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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I noticed the stone-deaf man, the twisted oaf whose face I have described as being that of an ill-treated and feeble-minded faun.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Eleven Victoria Crosses they won, Chard with his beard scorched, Bromhead stone-deaf, and those ragged Taffies half-dead on their feet, but not too done to fight - oh, and talk.
Watershed 2010
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The West Virginia voters sent a message loud and clear that they do not want a left-wing-Kerry-democrat for the nominee ... but are the democratic leaders listening or stone-deaf???
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If you see my blog you will see a Wilfred Owen sonnet I've read recently; 'Hospital Barge at cerisy' and I've also been readin 'February Afteroon' by Edward Thomas which ends in the lines "And God still sits aloft in the array, That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind."
From The Ridiculous To The Sublime Newmania 2007
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I leaned against the hood of my cruiser, bundled up in my winter gear, trying to pretend I was stone-deaf.
Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009
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Recall the 8+ years (much more if we count back to 1994, the dreaded year of the so-called Gingrich revolution) of the right-wing majority - who can ever forget a mean-spirited, ideologically rigid and civilly stone-deaf Sensenbrenner gaveling down a session of Congress when the opposition was speaking and walk away!
Edward Kennedy- The Last of the Genuine Liberals: A Cicero for Our Times 2009
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He made inquiries with local audiologists looking for a stone-deaf beauty who would be the concubine of the Austrian clock man.
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The Palestinian leadership has been pacified and tamed to be part and parcel of the Arab officialdom, which is very well versed with the U.S. politics and minutes of the American strategies, tactics and demands, but stone-deaf to the daily pulse of their people.
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